Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 423: The Road to Superstardom, the Initial Formation of the Asian Voting Base
The premiere is scheduled as usual on Thursday night, and Friday is the first day of release.

On this day, almost all theaters in the country were showing the movie "The Ugly Duckling".

Although it is impossible to easily achieve an 8% or even 9% filming rate like "Taken" and "Aftershock".

But with Liu Qianqian playing the leading role, the theater chain still gave her the greatest care and increased the filming rate by more than 40%.

During the summer vacation, many movies had to postpone their release dates in order to avoid the two big directors.

Considering the need to avoid Hollywood films, it is highly likely that they will be put together.

Under such circumstances, "The Ugly Duckling" still has more than 40% of the screenings, which is really good.

Other domestic films are also unlucky. They keep dodging and still get hit.

"The Ugly Duckling Becomes a Swan" grossed 2200 million on its first day, and directly reached 3300 million on the second day, Saturday, and just over 3 million on Sunday.

Including the midnight show on Thursday night, the box office for the first weekend was nearly 9 million.

This number is used for external publicity.

The box office of all other movies combined is not as high as this one.

When reporting on the films, the media almost completely ignored these cannon fodders, labeling them as "other movies" and not even worthy of mentioning their names.

But the stars in these movies were all very famous in previous years.

"Full Alert" stars Guo Fucheng, Zhang Jingchu and Shu Qi.

"The Informer" is starred by Xie Tingfeng and Zhang Jiahui.

The former king was finally completely defeated.

When discussing this phenomenon online, there was a lot of sighing.

"Thinking back to the past, no, it's only been two years, and those celebrities in Hong Kong Island are already losing their temper?"

"The photographer named Chen has made a great contribution."

"Xiao Chen: Are you talking about me?"

"In fact, it can really be blamed on Xiao Chen. He was the first person to break the myth of Hong Kong stars. His first commercial film was all mainland actors, which completely established mainland actors. This time he has exposed the underwear of Hong Kong actors. I dare not imagine how much Hong Kong actors hate him."

"Come on, why don't you say that it was he who pushed Fang Long to the top and firmly established himself as an international superstar? It's obvious that Hong Kong films themselves are failing."

"Indeed, if you want to shoot it well, you can't stop anyone from watching your movie."

"What's going on with this year's summer season? Is it really like what the media reported, that this is a good time for domestic films? The quality is really high."

"It's just an illusion. There was this saying before in the TV series. That was because Xiao Chen was filming the TV series. This year, Xiao Chen turned to the film side. You can see what the TV series has become.

There are not many excellent ones now, most of them are just watchable, and there is not a single classic that I really think is good.”

"That's not the case. Feng Xiaogang's Aftershock is indeed pretty good."

"If you remove Xiao Chen's two films and then look at the movie again, there is only one good movie left in the summer season. Do you still have the illusion that domestic films are on the rise?"

"Fuck, think about what you said, it seems to make some sense."

"..."

As word of mouth about "The Ugly Duckling" spread, many viewers who really thought the movie was good recommended it online.

Therefore, many people feel that this year is a big year for domestic films.

The publicity that Huayi did to sell its own film not only benefited itself, but also had a positive impact on "The Ugly Duckling".

Without too much publicity, the film attracted a lot of moviegoers just by relying on online word of mouth.

Some parents in particular heard that "The Ugly Duckling" is an inspirational film and might be beneficial to students' learning.

He immediately took his children to watch the movie. After watching the movie, he was very moved. Then he encouraged his neighbors and friends to join in the movie watching.

So it's strange that the box office curve of "The Ugly Duckling" in its second week showed a strange slight upward trend starting from around Tuesday.

By the end of the second week, it even reached the first week's data, with a total revenue of 1.45 million.

A total of 10 million in 2.3 days.

Professionals have given the film extremely high praise, praising it as the best campus inspirational film in the country.

It is estimated that the final box office will exceed 4 million, and it is impossible to guess how much more.

After all, the box office curve is not right, it doesn't seem like a normal movie.

The score on Douban is 8.6, which is higher than "Taken".

Looking at many of the film reviews, most of them were from students and recent graduates who resonated with the films.

This rating may still go up.

In comparison, "Full Alert" was denounced as a bad movie.

After earning 3000 million at the box office in the first weekend, word of mouth collapsed and the daily revenue was reported to be less than 300 million.

As for "The Insider", due to the complicated clues in the film, although it received good reviews among a niche audience, its box office was worse than "Full Alert".

Completely reduced to a background board.

As for overseas markets, "Taken" has just been released in East Asia for three weeks.

This combination of director Chen Linfeng and starring Fang Long has set off a movie-watching craze.

Many viewers who have seen the film are still amazed that Fang Long does not age. Now here comes another movie that is also based on the original work by Chen Linfeng.

The director of "Taken" became the screenwriter and producer of the new film.

The rescued daughter became the heroine of the new movie.

This publicity connection instantly arouses the interest of people who like to watch movies.

Because the previous experience was very good, I subconsciously believed that the quality of the new film would also be good.

Fans who were previously influenced by Long Lin’s TV series also believe that Professor Chen and An Qian’s new work must be a good one.

And the result did not disappoint them.

Although China's education system is different from that of these places, the emotions of struggle, hard work and hard work are the same.

Many viewers were moved to tears after watching the film.

The reviews on social media are almost identical to those in China, all praising it.

Especially Japan and South Korea, these two countries are the most dependent on fan economy and are also the places most influenced by Chinese culture. There are many fans who like Sissi and love this kind of subject matter.

Even though Japan is very good at making inspirational films, they also prefer this kind of subject matter.

Judging from the box office trends, it should be no problem for the film to exceed 10 billion yen.

In South Korea, the number of moviegoers reached 390 million, even surpassing "Taken".

I don’t know if it’s because they prefer watching pretty girls or they like inspirational movies.

Kirin released an internal analysis report, estimating that the overseas box office (Eastern Asia) should be no lower than the domestic box office.

At a time when the domestic box office market is constantly growing, it is surprisingly the same as with "Police Incident", with a balance between internal and external factors, and maintaining a similar level of growth.

Of course, the domestic box office of "Taken" was too strong. The box office in East Asian countries alone could not reach 9 million RMB.

But after conversion, there are nearly 6 million data, which is more than 9 million US dollars based on the current exchange rate.

It is a remarkable achievement.

You know, the box office revenue in Europe was only over 1 million US dollars.

Obviously, their interest in Chen Linfeng and Fang Long is not as high as that in other Hollywood movies.

But because of the rise in box office in Asia, the total amount is exactly over 5 million US dollars (5.36 million), which happens to be in line with previous forecast data.

And movie fans in East Asia always give face in this way.

It can only be said that the increase in the popularity of Chen Linfeng and Liu Qianqian has brought in more fans and potential audiences.

They will naturally be interested in the works of both of them.

As long as the word of mouth is good, I will tend to watch it.

As long as they can maintain this trend in the future, they will produce a good work every once in a while and not export bad films.

These movie fans and potential movie-watching groups will gradually become a voting base.

And this is the key to being called an international superstar.

If someone is willing to pay for you, your title of superstar will be loud enough.

Chen Linfeng's years of hard work finally paid off.

Once the overseas data of these two films came out, Hollywood's attitude towards Chen Linfeng and Liu Qianqian changed again.

The one who can hold his own at the box office is the real deal. Including China, the former has a potential box office of 2 million US dollars, and the latter is worth at least 1 million US dollars at the box office.

Although it is not that accurate, it will definitely fluctuate with different movie types.

But this is real strength.

Disney bought out the screening rights of "The Ugly Duckling" in the European and American markets.

Previously, they were indifferent to purely East Asian films.

But since "Taken" did relatively well at the box office, I wanted to try another purely Chinese film.

In their eyes, Chen's name can be sold for some money.

"They didn't mention the profit sharing?"

Sister Mei shook her head, "No, I'm only willing to buy it out."

"That's fine, a buyout is fine too, you can negotiate. I don't have high requirements, and everything is based on maximizing the coverage area."

Chen Linfeng is not in a hurry. Didn’t the Asian region go through the same process in the beginning? Just take it slow.

Even if the channel cannot be established, we need to rely on Disney's approach.

But as long as the popularity is spread and there is an audience, even if something unexpected happens later, you can still try to do it yourself.

After all, it’s not like local cinemas would not make money.

But if no one wants to watch your movie, it’s useless to control the channel.

The quality of some domestic films has actually improved in later generations, but they can still only make money in the domestic market because there was not enough preparation in the early stages.

He doesn't want to go back to the old ways.

After listening to Chen Linfeng's analysis, Sister Mei expressed her approval.

She has always believed in Xiaofeng's strategic ideas, even though he now occupies an important position in all of Qilin's industries.

Logically, she could have expressed her own opinions, but she still focused on execution and was unwilling to act recklessly.

If you have the right goal, why bother thinking too much? That would be stupid.

"Oh, one more thing,"

Sister Mei said, "The film purchasing manager from Disney also extended an olive branch to Xixi, hoping to cooperate with her if there is a chance in the future.

In addition, several international luxury brands have also approached us.”

Sister Mei introduced several familiar brands, all of which wanted to invite Liu Xixi to be the brand spokesperson for the Asia region.

The goal is clear, it's about the wallet power of her fans.

"Haha, this is a good thing. You and Aunt Liu can discuss it."

Chen Linfeng thought that these brands came quite quickly, and they didn’t seem to be so proactive in his previous life.

He remembered that at this time in his previous life, the country's top celebrities had to rush to curry favor in order to have a chance to become a brand friend or ambassador, and there were very few direct spokespersons.

What’s more, he is the spokesperson for the region.

Chen Linfeng is happy to see Xixi establishing cooperation with these international brands.

It's not about the money, but mainly because big brands spend a lot of money on the media every year, so they naturally have a strong ability to guide public opinion.

Being their spokesperson may be of some benefit, at least when facing some special public opinions.

Chen Linfeng himself took on several endorsements out of this consideration.

After all, when you are living abroad, you should pay special attention to this aspect.

Otherwise, if you don’t have many connections, you might get hacked if you’re not careful.

(End of this chapter)